Chronicle Barça shakes an indolent Madrid and recovers stripes in the Desert Super Cup
Opinion The double value of Xavi's first title: Super Cup and a dead Madrid
Protagonist Gavi, the "competitive animal" that is crowned in Riyadh: "That it does not stop, that it has no ceiling"
"
Humiliation
?"
Carlo Ancelotti
landed in the press room of
the King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh
with few words.
Something strange in a man accustomed to lengthening his speeches.
The
resounding defeat
(1-3) in the final of the
Spanish Super Cup
against
Barça
hit
Real Madrid
's locker room hard .
"It seems to me a lack of respect to talk about humiliation," replied the Italian, recalling the
3-1 draw in the first round
of the League at the
Santiago Bernabéu
.
"
It's not in my head to talk about humiliation
, it's too much. In sport sometimes you win and sometimes they beat you. We lost today against Barça and we beat them in the League. They have played better and they have deserved it, period", he insisted, before listing the reasons for Madrid's defeat in Saudi Arabia.
"The team has had
little intensity, little success
, it has had 25 losses in the first half. It has
not been forceful
one on one. It has been an
incomplete game
in all facets...", summed up the transalpine.
Ancelotti admitted that the dressing room "
is hurt, a lot
", but assured that they have "all the resources to endure and improve. To have more of everything. Madrid will return, I have no doubt".
The coach spoke of the "
gifts
" that his team made in the first two goals, the 0-1 after a bad pass from
Rüdiger
and the 0-2 after a bad decision by
Militao and Carvajal
, who tried to reach the same ball against
De Jong
, failed and left Gavi alone.
"The match started even, without much rhythm. And when the scoring opened they had more confidence.
Avoid those gifts
its the first.
Players should realize that these errors are easy to avoid.
The game up to then had had a chance for each team and in these games, if you go ahead, winning is closer.
It happened in the League the other way around," he recalled.
For Ancelotti, it is "a
difficult moment
", but "as can happen at one point in the season", and it could be a turning point: "It is true that the moment of the team is not good, but this team has the quality to return to be competitive.
There is a long season left
and we are going to play until the end".
And he hopes the players will "raise their heads soon" and think "about what we're going to do."
"We lacked that attitude"
On the pitch,
Fede Valverde
was the voice of the dressing room and assumed the team's mistakes: "
We lacked that
necessary attitude when you want to be champion. If you want to win
you have to give more than 100%
and today I think we lacked it", he admitted, assuring that "going out at 80 or 90 percent against an opponent like that cannot be done."
The Uruguayan, who is not going through his best moment since the
World Cup in Qatar
, acknowledged that "we all have to show our faces and move on."
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